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@Hoppyda It is good that you can just switch it off as yours must be very sensitive and the roads you drive in Stirlingshire with twisty bits have clearer lines than the ones i drive. I do not even disable Lane Keep Assist in cars when when the roads are snow covered, ploughed or with snow banks at the side of lanes in any car.

No debate, nothing is filled for life with a DSG. But there is no Servicing Schedule with a DQ200 DSG. The Oils can be changed in the box and the MCU if needs must or someone wants to. But that would not be a Skoda / VW Main Dealership doing it if anyone cared. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/519933-dsg As for DQ250 DSG,s, if someone can get someone to change the oil and filter for £250 or less they are not making much money taking into account the cost of the Oil, Filter & Plug. & 20% VAT.

^^^ It should not be doing anything on the twisty bits. Including misbehaving.

235 is perfect for snow if you mean UK snow ploughed or not ploughed. But if you go for Narrow Tyres that get a grip through snow / mud then that is a different thing. 225,s might be perfect though for winter and summer on a Yeti. Yokohama Geolander G012. 235/60 R 16

@Graham ButcherAs i pointed out in that Toyota Recall Thread you posted. It was just the Toyota iQ for the UK. I seem to go for cars that have recalls years / decades later but have been fine through all the years inbetween.

Good. You do not need to even pay that much, but they are a forum sponsor. So you are not part of the VW con of needing to get the WLTP Certification that held up delivery of cars. You just need the VW504 00 / 507 00, Available at Super Markets, Discount Stores, Motor Factors and just anyplace. Just not in a Silver Bottle with VAG / VW-Audi branding. VW Group not being an Oil producer. Part owned by the Wealth Fund of an oil country. Qatar!

The Dealership or their insurers should be footing the bill including recovery. Their incompetent employee / employees were the cause of the whole crisis were they not? It mattered not if you had Roadside Recovery or not. The cheeky little monkeys at the dealership were at fault. It should come out the Master Techs bonus or the Service Managers 'Up-selling Commission'.

I hope people with them in the UK are not running off to Solicitors for some class action. There are some cracking customised ones on the go. I remember the Mike Brewer one. Nicely modded up and fast and probably none killed any of the drivers, passengers or the innocents they passed. Maybe the price of them will drop but i doubt it. Maybe VOSA might have someone seize them. But then that would open a can of worms for many car manufacturers / cheaters

I have watched him for decades and linked / posted his videos on here for over a decade. He p15535 me off more than a little now with the over the top stuff. It has lost it's humour to me. As to the Daihatsu Pick ups, and the vans. We used to use ones for deliveries and to work on a hill for working on paths and tracks. That was about 28 years ago. ? So have people been dying because of fraudulent test results. Has the doors caved in on them when T-Boned? We used to just worry about rolling down a hillside in them and wondered how they might fare My Jimny pick-up bed was a shortened version on a Honda Acty pick up bed, the same ones as used on the Daihatsu pick-up. Very good metal.

@Zak13 Beware. Halfords.... Do you have in writing 'Brake fluid has apparently got oil in it' ? Question this one, not H20 in it? Wish bones are something you might want a Mechanic to check and not some Fitter @ Halfords or any tyre and exhaust centre other than if the MOT Examiner.

Oil to the spec VW504 00 / 507 00, 0w 30 FS III or 5w 30 FS III. (That is for a TSI VW504 00 be it fixed or variable servicing.) A TDI is the VW 507 00 even if on fixed oil a filter service schedule. Later on, 2018- then maybe the VW508 00 / 509 00, 0w 20 FS IV In the UK the oil as used at Main Dealers might well be from Fuchs Lubricants & the Quantum Range. VW Group / Skoda recommended Castrol for decades, did they fall out with them?

**** 'O' the North strikes again. Porsche Charge Card @ Ionity nice and cheap @ 30 pence a kWh. Near enough the same as a standard home tariff was and will be again. If he used them more often (& Porsche chargers) then he might know what he was doing & doing wrong and charge less often on slower chargers that cost more than double that. *& when getting such a fast charge do not stop at 80%, get it up to 90% or when it slows as to as slow as you might get on a 50kW rapid. Fill your boots, get the range and don't mess about finding chargers because you never took 10 minutes of your charging time while there anyway to look ahead at options / alternatives. 48 kW getting 3 miles to a kWh is 144 miles for the £14.40 3.5 miles then 168 miles. If the battery is low enough then 40 minutes should get you 60 kWh. Efficient car getting 3.5 miles & that is £18.00 for 210 miles. Ideal weather and not a Super Car with one person in it and 4 miles a kWh than 240 miles. Maybe use Tesla non Tesla, costs a little more, Ultra Rapid Charging. On your way.

What has what others do got to do with what you used to do and others here including me did. I was sorting out stuff today and i have my mum and dads Caravan Club rally plaques from the 40 years they went to rallies. Hundreds of them all in folders. I looked online to see if anyone collects and would want them and i see collections selling, or people asking for money for them. I will give these away free and keep the memories of caravaning as a kid and then with my own caravan, and years of towing all sorts. As it is if i ever do tow with an EV then i could not care less about what used to happen and who did it, especially people who never intend having an EV or needs to have an EV.

I have no idea from listening to that, but it does not sound to me like it is running on 3 cylinders.

@Bluechildso you want used leather ones and just want to know what will fit on the standard runners. Someone will be along hopefully then that knows,

A total faff and you have to be keen if you are going to spend more towing with an EV or just running an EV than running an ICE. But then people have them for what ever reason, usually because of the savings to them in tax and it being a vehicle for work, or the charging can be cheap lots of the times and then subsidised at others. Those doing it will know why they do it. As it is there are many that can not reverse a caravan , trailer / transporter and end up uncoupling anyway. With a small caravan it really is no hassle, but then the locking and securing the van is a faff.

I am still Blocked surely. I was told often enough over the years.

@J.R.do you mean a incarnation of@KenONeill? Ken Block did sadly die. What a shame there will be no new ones of these, maybe a few are at sea and on their way to the UK or already here.

I am not talking about Motorway Service Stations when discussing Charging Hubs in Scotland, but there will be more long charging bays provided as there are EV Commercials Towing now. Tesla charging is the nearside rear light and the cable goes across the space between the car and caravan if they are parked along side, Audi,s at the front wing. People are towing and charging. I know nothing about GridServe and others now and what they are providing in the way of charging for Commercials and Cars towing. @Graham ButcherHave you been to many chargers? Have you started doing drive-bys to check them out? There are some i know that are suitable and i would not tell others because of particularly greedy caravaners that would go their to charge free and then use the energy to power the caravan from the car. The Stirling charger at the other side of the Grey MG Estate is the one you pull up to with the van on at the other side of the pillar and the cable reaches his charger hatch. Or hatches on a Tesla facing the other way. You block nobody. At the old one outside you block the AC if you keep the caravan hitched. *The bus chargers is as it arrived and has never been hooked up.* AMAZING HOW MANY IGNORE THE 40 MINS MAX CHARGING, and pay the £1 a minute and keep charging. Or have 2 different cards and stop charging and if nobody is waiting starts on another card. Or like me now carries on charging to full on the 11 (43) kW AC on the side. 2 Rapid Chargers at Strathclyde country park and others nearby and even more locally since the vid was filmed. Lidl, & several about Hamilton, GridServe. £1 connection feem 70 pence a kWh at Strathclyde Country Park on the Rapid, twice the price of Stirling.

Yes! As we discussed previously in this and other threads. Several locations in Scotland. eg, Wallyford. Stirling Park & Ride if the get the furthest out charger. Not sure if there will be suitable chargers / bays at the Improved Broxden Park & Ride Perth. Could still be quicker to unhitch if some big battery car towing is on the suitable charger / chargers. Or just a solo vehicle. Even using an Ultra Fast charger when a 50 kW Rapid would have been sufficient.

^^^ There is a thread on towing and that and other vids are in there. There are people towing with caravans and getting half the range. I meet a couple of Tesla Drivers that tow their vans and it is at their 2nd public charging i meet them. The have the 2 charging sessions with one at 35 pence a kWh then the next free and the 3rd one is 55 pence kWh. They have no issues doing it other than where i meet them they sometimes have to unhook the caravan to charge. Truth of the matter and you are in a hurry, someone is ill, on their death bed and you need to get their quick and it is twice the distance of the range of the car or maybe more or less the range of the car on a gentle run, then you are going to go with an ICE vehicle and forget the drinks and snacks and sitting / standing waiting, worrying at EV chargers. Osprey really is quite expensive. Bl00dy expensive really when you look at the cost per mile you get from the energy bought.

Welcome. Sorry no idea. Hopefully others can help. What is it you have, a 1.2 TSI or is it a MPI or a TDI? How many miles has it done?

Instavolt now 85 pence a kWh. £8.50 for 10 kWh and if you are getting 4 miles a kWh then 40 miles, but if only 2.7 miles / kWh then 27 miles. It is really crazy.